Leg flags have been in use a lot longer than that. I was using them
with QWSG in Dec 1997 at Lytton in Brisbane.
Yours in all things "green"
Regards
John Harris
Secretary, Victorian Association for Environmental Education (VAEE)
Environmental Education Officer
Donvale Christian College
155 Tindals Rd Donvale 3111
03 9844 2471
0409 090 955
>>> "Gemfyre" <> 10/04/07 4:08 pm >>>
"Yes I am concerned about the plight of the waders. Is it true that
the
eigteen year old record was a curlew sandpiper with a single metal
band, not
a colour flag. My concern is that a plastic leg flag or even worse
multiple flags l(not a single aluminium band) are particularly
destructive
to small waders (size of Lesser Knot or smaller).. What is the oldest
return for a plastic colour leg flag (not band) on a small wader? What
is
the oldest return for multiple plastic leg flags on small waders."
Can't comment on a lot of this but I can answer a few questions here.
The oldest return for a leg flag would be no more than 4-5 years I'm
guessing - simply because coloured leg flags haven't been in use for
longer
than that.
And as far as I know, multiple flags are only used for the largest
waders
(i.e. Eastern Curlew). Small waders only have a single, very small
flag -
so small in fact that alpha-numeric coding of individuals isn't
possible
with them.
Belinda
Narrogin (soon to be Scarborough)
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